What is a Quick Service Restaurant? A quick service restaurant (QSR) is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by cuisine and table seating. Food served in these restaurants characteristically caters to a “meat-sweet diet” and is offered from a limited menu, cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order,…
What Is The Most Popular Cake Flavor?
Wednesday, November 26 is National Cake Day. Which begs the question, what is the most popular cake flavor in North America and why? The Reigning King of Cake Flavors With so many different levels of richness and options for flavor pairings, chocolate remains the most popular cake flavor. This childhood favorite has the flexibility to be…
Consumers Provide Top Five Perfect Pairings
Peanut butter and jelly, pork and beans, chicken and dumplings, spaghetti and meatballs…Contract Testing recently asked consumers (from both the United States and Canada) to tell us more about their ‘perfect pairings’ when it comes to the food and drink they enjoy. According to the survey, their perfect pairings include: Peanut butter with jam Consumers…
Contract Testing’s Annual Halloween Survey!
Halloween spending is set to BOOm this year. The Financial Post (Canada) recently reported that Canadians are now outspending Americans on Halloween to the tune of $1-billion in 2014. With the second most popular holiday approaching, more than 3,000 testers participated in a consumer survey about Halloween to get more insight into this very spooooooky…
CTI Breakfast Survey 2014
Experts say that breakfast is the most important part of the day; many parents would report that it’s also the busiest. To mark National Breakfast Month, and the back to school season, Contract Testing surveyed parents to find out more about their breakfast routines – and about kids preferences when it comes to the food…
Nutritional Beverages: Exploring the differences in taste and textural profiles among seniors
The market for products geared towards improving the health and well-being of our aging population continues to grow. The challenges of maintaining our health and nutrition increase as consumers get older – and for some, single-serve nutritional drinks or ‘shakes’ are a practical option – either for maintaining weight or getting the nutritional elements they…
The Ham and Cheese Sandwich Ranks Among the Most Popular of Sandwich Options: This and more sandwich preferences from Contract Testing’s most recent consumer survey.
We all have a favourite sandwich. For Ross Geller on Friends, it was a turkey sandwich with a “moist maker” – an extra slice of gravy soaked bread in the centre. And in Seinfeld, Kramer’s character just could not eat a sandwich without Dijon mustard. Contract Testing’s most recent consumer survey looked at sandwich preferences:…
National Hot Dog Day – July 23rd
July 23rd is National Hot Dog Day and to celebrate, Contract Testing reveals consumer preferences when it comes to one of North America’s most popular foods – the hot dog. The top dog: the majority of respondents reported their preference for an all beef hot dog (62 per cent) with “the works” (ketchup, relish, mustard…